Tldr lower. So thereās (yet again) another flurry of communities that are all crossposting each otherās content with this hentai stuff.
Aside from a lot of this being made with AI, it is in essence soft porn and I donāt want it in /all.
I usually write a comment under such posts saying
Set your comm to NSFW pls
Rarely the mod write āDoneā and thatās it. Often it is downvoted, and now itās also just removed by mod for (I wouldnāt know the reason as itās on a different instance to mine)
https://lemmy.world/post/33972247
TLDR; I donāt want my all feed to be a soft porn feed, is there anyway of not having these hentai soft porn communities in all, apart from individually blocking them (which doesnāt really work, as they keep making more communities).
Why canāt we expect that, though? True bad actors are surprisingly rare, and minor fauxpas forgiven. Thatās kinda how all of human society is able to function.
I donāt really know what youāre trying to say about linux communities or my workflow - that was being used an arbitrary example, and the actual goal with browsing /all is to find content you are interested in but previously unaware of. Not all communities follow strict naming guidelines, let alone tagging guidelines, and itās actually a real problem onboarding new users to the fediverse (mastadonās āwhere is the contentā meme, for example)
Because the larger the number of people in the group, the more disagreement there will be about defines ābad actorsā and āminor fauxpasā. Right now in this thread people are arguing over whether or not these should be classified as NSFW, for instance.
I know you meant meant linux just as an example, but what I am trying to understand is how much of an habit is it for you to get into content discovery mode that you worry about ādoing it in publicā?
Iām not really up for a discussion on the foundational concept of ethos since itās like 5am here, but conversations like this thread are pretty fundamental to how every human endeavor functions (hence why theyāre broadly called āforumsā). I donāt expect everyone to always do the āright thingā (nor do I want to litigate the minutiae of what āright thingā could mean in this context), but giving up on the entire idea of having a guideline to follow just because some people wonāt seems a little defeatist.
Lemmy is still extremely new, and finding new communities to help grow (or even just finding new sources of content to consume, which is similarly valid) is fairly difficult without resorting to the one tool we have to help discover them. Iād wager, without having access to the backend, that right now the majority of users browse by /all since most niche communities only have at best a handful of new posts a week, and that content is exhausted quickly. At least, thatās what I do, and Iām really very confident in my not-even-being-slightly-not-basic.
Yeah, I could bet that is the case as well. But while I understand the justification for this behavior, I donāt think that it makes for a healthy one. Browsing by /all because the content of my curated feed is stale seems like driving to a McDonalds after finishing a healthy dinner and Iām not feeling completely full.
To torture a metaphor, right now itās more like driving to McDonaldās after having a pretty basic meal two days earlier. I agree that ultimately youāre right, but given just how small most developing communities are, itās pretty reasonable to look around to find new things to engage with. If nobody did that I think lemmy might just fizzle out as a network, itās just too small to really support the kind of curated feed weāre used to with larger sites like reddit/twitter/insta. The addictive nature of those sites is a good debate for a separate time, but in this case even getting to the level of āplease enjoy responsiblyā requires quite a bit of searching around.
To continue with tortured metaphors: we can always go to the supermarket and cook our own food. If the content on the communities Iām interested is low, I can go to reddit and repost it here, or I can take a look at one my RSS feeds and see if I can find anything relevant, etc.
Sure but if I wanted to do that, Iād justā¦ doordashā¦ or somethingā¦
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Okay I think the poor metaphor has had enough (read: Iām too dumb to carry it on). And I agree, but if I was just after new content Iād just go to reddit or my RSS feed and be content with that content. Part of the goal in transitioning to lemmy is to find new sources of content on lemmy, which just requires effort in sifting thru things like /all until youāve built up enough to reasonably contribute to / consume / comment on / etc.
I understand, but bootstrapping a whole new network is hard. Lemmy is reporting ~55k monthly active users and to do that itās even counting people who mere vote as an activity. Following the 1/9/90 rule, we should expect ~550 active posters here, which is simply not enough to sustain all the long tail of interests out there.
All Iām saying is that it would be better for everyone if we focused more on the active participation (posting content that is relevant to you and your interests) than a passive ālet me play some slot machine and get a dopamine hitā that is browsing /all.
Sure, contributing is better for communities than consuming. No argument there.